DISABLED and old may lose lifts, an article in Argus July 5 2016. A question or three. Who will do the means testing? Not, I hope, interested parties but then if social services were content with an independent opinion it’s already there. 
Disabled people have already been deemed to need help from the community that they are part of, the elected element of that community now want to change the rules and save money. 
Come next election the bottom line will, might, look good, the hope is the majority of rate paying voters would have forgotten which councillors voted in savings against minorities, this time the disabled. 
Senior citizens in our community already have bus passes, for which I am grateful, especially as I came here late in life. 
But not all bus routes fit the plan or conveniently pass social centres and please remember, the plush seats in the council chambers, the building they are housed in and a myriad of, now contracted out, community services were paid for from fifty years of senior citizen’s contributions to Newport’s infrastructure, don’t they deserve some pay back? 
Would another saving be loss of jobs, or is that another department conveniently farmed out so the council can walk away with clean hands?

Peter Walters 
Woodside 
Dyffryn 
Newport